Upcoming:
The Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, with the Métamorphoses Association, Bretteville-sur-Odon, 2027.
Abysses, group exhibition with the Dire Autrement collective, La Bouée, Cherbourg, 2027.
Artistic Research
Myths, Figures, and Protean Images
My work draws on figures, narratives, and images from ancient mythologies, literature, art history, and collective imaginaries.
I approach them as living materials: ancient forms that can still resonate with profoundly contemporary experiences.
From painting to text, from character to material, from image to stage, my research constantly moves from one medium to another. The works therefore do not constitute separate bodies, but different manifestations of the same underlying questions.
Here, I invite you to follow a few of these threads.
Myths as Living Matter and Echoes of Our Society
Myths are one of the main territories of my artistic research.
I do not seek to illustrate them or to offer a definitive interpretation. Rather, I am interested in what remains alive within these stories: their characters, their conflicts, their obsessions, and the questions they continue to raise.
Odysseus and Penelope, Medea, Orpheus, Salome, and other figures thus become starting points for explorations that can take very different forms.







Rethinking Female Figures, Questioning Gender
Female figures occupy a central place in my work. Penelope, Medea, Eve, Salome, and other figures drawn from mythology and religious narratives have often come down to us through stories written, interpreted, or represented from a male perspective.
I am interested in what happens when that perspective is shifted: what do these women become when their complexity, contradictions, desires, and agency are restored to them?
I am not seeking to give them a new definitive truth, nor to turn them into exemplary or unambiguous figures. Rather, I want to return their ambiguity to them. What interests me is shifting the way they are looked at, bringing to light what remains in the shadows of the narrative: their desires, contradictions, power, vulnerability, and sometimes their violence.
My approach is therefore rooted in a feminist reflection, not as a subject to be illustrated, but as a way of questioning the representations and narratives that have shaped our collective imagination. I am interested in the roles assigned to women, and in the ways desire, motherhood, violence, waiting, and transgression have been represented.
Through painting, drawing, textile, performance, and theatre, I seek less to illustrate these figures than to make them circulate again — to bring them into confrontation with the present, and to create a space in which they can be seen differently.
To paint, write, stage, or make these figures move through space becomes a way of looking again at women whom history has too often confined to a single role: desired, condemned, admired, feared, silenced, or turned into monsters.






Figures in Tension
Certain figures return recurrently throughout my work.
Women, lovers, mothers, absentees, doubles, monsters, and characters in the process of becoming appear in situations where identity always seems unstable.
I am particularly interested in moments of transition: waiting or leaving, loving or destroying, remembering or inventing, being looked at or looking back in turn.
Mythological figures thus become less characters than presences through which to explore desire, otherness, memory, and disquiet.



Absence, Waiting, Grief and Memory
Absence runs through much of my work: the absence of the other, the waiting for their return, loss, memory, or the impossibility of knowing whether what is missing ever truly existed.
Penelope waits for Odysseus; Orpheus seeks to bring Eurydice back from the world of the dead. Other figures carry, in their own ways, the trace of a separation, an unfulfilled desire, or a presence that has become ghostly.
I am interested in this uncertain space where absence does not necessarily mean emptiness, but instead becomes a form of inner presence. Memory transforms what has disappeared, while the imagination sometimes attempts to fill what reality can no longer restore.
Waiting, remembering, losing, or trying to find again thus become different ways of questioning our relationship to time, to the other, and to what remains when they are no longer there.



Working in Series
I often work in series.
An image is not always conceived as a definitive form: it can be revisited, shifted, repeated, or transformed. Several paintings can thus function as a sequence of stills from the same scene.
Accumulation gradually introduces a sense of temporality into painting. What initially seemed still begins to tell a story, to move, and even to come alive.
The same principle can then extend beyond the canvas, into text, textile, video, or performance.








le corps et le théâtre
My painting is akin to a frozen theatre.
The figures seem caught in a suspended moment, as if something had just happened or were about to happen. Framing, gazes, gestures, and the relationships between the figures thus construct situations rather than mere representations.
The body becomes a site of tension between inner experience and the gaze of the other.
This theatrical dimension naturally extends into writing, performance, and video, where the image can recover movement, voice, and time.


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Metamorphosis and Matter(s)
Some explorations gradually leave the surface of the canvas to become matter.
Thread, fabric, assemblage, objects, volumes, and installations give a physical presence to images and narratives.
Textiles, in particular, hold a distinctive place in my work. They carry with them gestures of construction, repetition, waiting, repair, and transformation.
The figure of Penelope is one of the most obvious points of convergence: weaving then becomes a way of constructing an image, but also of holding on, undoing, and beginning again.


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a protean body of work
A research process may begin with an image and continue elsewhere.
A painted figure may become a theatre character. A gesture may become a dance sequence. A motif may become textile. A scene may be revisited in a text or relocated into an installation.
I therefore do not seek to keep mediums within separate territories. They respond to one another and transform one another.
This circulation lies at the heart of my multidisciplinary practice.


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Theater
Writing has accompanied my visual research for a long time.
It allows me to give a voice to figures, to extend an image, or to bring forth what cannot be represented.
Some explorations thus give rise to plays, monologues, fragments, or texts that can in turn become the starting point for a new visual work.


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These different threads are not closed categories.
They intersect, echo one another, and sometimes become indistinguishable. The same figure may move from painting to theatre, from textile to performance, from myth to a profoundly contemporary experience.
It is through these shifts between forms that my work takes shape.
To explore further, read my research journal or download my artistic portfolio (in french - send me a mail for an english portfolio) :


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